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WorldPingEvery awards season has a film that dares you to look away. This year it’s carried by a nine-year-old girl.
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WorldPing“The Pitt” will be honored by Cedars-Sinai with the Hollywood Leadership Award at its upcoming Sunset Soirée gala.
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In partnership with Hydro Flask and UMG, this special drop is inspired by his recent album, Chuck Timely & the Hourglass…
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WorldPingAcademy Award-nominated French animation studio Xilam Animation has inked a wave of presales for the latest content from its line-up of iconic comedy franchises during the Unifrance Rendez-Vous, contradicting the sales slowdown announced by France’s…
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"If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'," bassist says of new book Funked Around, Found Out out next spring…
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After spending 11 years on Taschen's 10-pound 'Arnold,' editor Dian Hanson reveals what she unearthed about the star — including his favorite movie, his compulsive collecting and his uncanny impression of someone eating potato chips.
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For now, the scheduled events (which don’t include the film cast) account for screenings of Wicked: Part One only, while separate showings will be hosted for Wicked: For Good…
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Baker's last solo album, Little Oblivions , arrived in 2021…
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WorldPingWhoopi Goldberg shut down dissent from the audience at The View after audible boos were heard following a mention of Republican Senator Ted Cruz.
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WorldPingSteven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day will begin streaming exclusively on Peacock October 9, the streamer announced today.
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WorldPingNetflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos used the Paris premiere of “Call My Agent! The Movie” to underscore the streamer’s importance to France’s entertainment industry amid a regulatory battle over the country’s investment obligations and release window.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Netflix is doubling down on dating. The streamer has ordered Love At First Sight, which comes from Age of Attraction producer Velvet Hammer Media, its latest move in the popular dating genre.
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WorldPingFox Corp.’s bid for streaming platform Roku is undergoing review by the Justice Department, with the U.S. agency requesting additional documents related to the proposed deal. On Tuesday, Sept.
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On Imperfections , the Israeli singer is reclaiming her voice — one vulnerable pop song at a time…
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"Some things aren’t meant to be fixed,” the transgender model and activist says in the "Born to Disobey" campaign from the Spanish label that critiques artificial intelligence.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Spanish Grammy winner Rosalía is in early talks to join Alma Har’el’s buzzy family-drama Wet, we can reveal.
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Band also releases short film with the songs "We Are Torn Wide Open" and "Mirror Deep" featuring Blackfeet Nation members…
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The agreement is the first season-long TV deal for the women's hockey league.
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WorldPingBeehiiv, the creator platform that has gained traction through associations with independent journalists such as Oliver Darcy and Joanna Stern, unveiled an expansion of its Media Collective, a roster of journalists who have turned to the company to h…
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WorldPingIt’s just a couple of days before Jeff Goldblum is getting ready to head to London to host the Season 2 premiere of “SNL U.K.” on Sept. 12. “I’m a big Anglophile,” he tells me on a Zoom from Italy, where he and his wife Emilie are enjoying a summer vacation.
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The Swiftiephylus species are found in Australia — but that shouldn’t stop them from getting global fans, just like their namesake…
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WorldPingA researcher at Anthropic who trained new AI models has resigned his position, issuing a dire warning that has gone viral.
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WorldPingHulu has set a fall premiere date for the remaining six episodes of Season 2 of Rivals, starring David Tennant, Alex Hassell and Aidan Turner. Part 2 of Jilly Cooper’s adaptation from her Rutshire Chronicles, will premiere with three episodes on Nov.
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The son of Tim Herlihy follows the son of Steve Higgins out the Studio 8H door after five seasons.
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WorldPingRome-based sales company True Colours has boarded Italian director Ginevra Elkann’s new feature “The Roses of Marrakesh” (“Le Rose di Marrakech”) starring Fanny Aradant as an aged matron named Madame Isabelle who lives in a luxurious estate in the Pa…
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WorldPingMartin Herlihy is departing NBC’s Saturday Night Live after a five-season stint as a writer and performer. Herlihy joined SNL in 2021 as part of the Please Don’t Destroy comedy troupe alongside fellow members Ben Marshall and John Higgins.
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WorldPingMS Now’s new streaming platform, MS Now Membership, has set a slate of five original series toplined by Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell, Ali Velshi, Claire McCaskill and Andrew Weissmann. The service launches today.
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Football superfans from Alice Cooper and Melissa Etheridge to Breland and Bret Michaels predict how their favorite teams will fare…
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WorldPingRipcord, a new independent film platform that aims to directly connect genre filmmakers with fans, has announced a spooky new film festival.
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The searing drama, premiering next month on Starz, was made entirely with British money — and Cumming says it couldn't have gone any other way: "I doubt anything like this will be made in America for some time, sadly."…
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Silicon Valley founders and CEOs are the next wave of big screen villains in buzzy projects tackling Zuckerberg, Musk, Holmes and Altman.
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WorldPingAmazon Prime Video series Maxton Hall is the first programming on the streaming platform to feature new AI technology synchronizing actors’ lip movements with human-dubbed audio.
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WorldPingSteven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi adventure, “Disclosure Day,” will stream on Peacock starting Oct. 9 Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor star as a meteorologist and whistleblower who discover an unexpected connection with alien life.
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WorldPingThe 2026 Venice Film Festival got underway on Wednesday, September 2, with Oscar-winning English director Danny Boyle’s Ink — starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy — kicking off an 83rd edition that includes films starring the likes of R…
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: Production is underway in Mississippi on psychological thriller Ping, starring Obsession actress Megan Lawless.
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WorldPingC-SPAN will provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of the 2026 Republican Convention starting on Wednesday in Dallas, while Fox News and NewsNation are planning special programming.
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A chat with Peter Levin, founder of venture firm Griffin Gaming Partners, on Hollywood's forays into the trading card business and how he curates his own 500,000-plus card collection.
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Forget decorations and costumes: People are lining up to shop Halloween countdown calendars from retailers like Williams Sonoma, Etsy, and more…
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WorldPingPeriod instruments are miles away from retro affectation, and as two Proms this week will show, can actually bring historical music up to the moment Nostalgia. What a kick. And what a commercial boon for the music industry.
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WorldPingOnce hailed as the future, even the likes of Google, Sony and Microsoft have struggled to make streaming games fun, fast or affordable • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox?
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With a new album out as This Is Lorelei, he’s making sense of his newfound position as someone who gets covered by MJ Lenderman and Cameron Winter…
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The 'Law & Order: SVU' star, Knicks superfan and, soon, Emmy host dishes about the speeches, the jokes and the prep for TV’s biggest night.
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Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's biopic of Russian physicist Lev Lendau has been 20 years in the making, with over a dozen related features and other projects created in what’s been dubbed the 'Stalinist Truman Show.'…
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WorldPing‘The black cloud emerged from a grate in the street. I guess something underground was on fire.
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The company says the U.S. government requested more information about the deal Tuesday.
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WorldPingClarke has been charged with offences including sexual assault. BBC News has asked him for a comment.
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WorldPingIt comes after the network conducted a review amid a "rapidly changing media landscape".
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WorldPingSoho theatre, London A dance teacher for toddlers dreams of bigger things in Julia Grogan’s frantic one-woman show The mind of a performer, hungry for her big break, is cracked open in Julia Grogan’s one-woman follow-up to her drama Playfight.
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